Merry Christmas!
Another year has flown by and we’ve had another successful year at
Chemsafety. 2015 has seen a real focus
on training and personal development within our team. This is set to continue in the New Year and
we’ll also be working on
our relationships with our clients by adding more value to the
relationships that we already have.

Holidays

Chemsafety will be closing for the Christmas / New Year
break at 12:00pm on Thursday 24 December and reopening on Monday 11 January
2015.

We will be accepting samples for asbestos analysis up until
Tuesday 22 December 2015 with results available on 23 December. Any samples received after Tuesday 22
December 2015 may not have analysis results back until the office reopens on 11
January.

However,
if something seriously urgent crops up give us a call and we will see what we
can do.

New Website

We’ve given our website a bit of an overhaul and brought it
up to date with current technologies. We
plan to keep the website up to date with articles so it becomes a valuable
resource to our clients.

Mike has been writing a series of articles on the changes
the Asbestos Health & Safety Regulations and we have posted these on our
website and through the Chemsafety LinkedInpage. Have a look under our News section for the back dated articles and follow Chemsafety on LinkedIn to get notifications of any
new articles.

We would love your feedback on the new website, so please email
Nicky with any feedback and also let
her know if there are any article topics you would like to see on the website.

As the
Regulations are revised or new information on chemical hazards becomes
available we will keep you up to date via the above conduits.

Changes in the Health
& Safety Regulations

The Health and Safety at Work Act and the first crop of Regulations will come into
force in April 2016 and will bring changes to the responsibilities of PCUB’s. Chemsafety is planning to host a series of informative
sessions in February 2016 where our expert Consultants will present the main
points of the Regulations in HSNO, Asbestos and industrial chemical safety and health. This will be the perfect opportunity to ask
any questions you may have.

Draft Hazardous Substance Regulations

These have been expected to be released for
consultation in November or December this year and now I hope they arrive
nicely wrapped. If you have hazardous substances of any sort, and want to
have a say in the new regulations keep an eye for the consultation on these and
make your submissions (WorkSafe have said that the consultation period will
take the holiday period into account). Chemsafety will certainly be reading
them with a fine tooth comb, and will let you know what it all means.

Merry Christmas

The team at Chemsafety would like to wish all of our clients and suppliers a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. We look forward to seeing you all next year.

Chemsafety offers a wide range of chemical risk management services. If you have a situation that you would like to discuss, please contact us now.